Teen gets seven years in prison for ATM robberies

YOUNGSTOWN — Denzel Searcy told a judge sentencing him to seven years in prison for robbery that he did receive his high-school diploma.

It was mailed to him while he was an inmate at Mahoning County jail.

The 19-year-old Searcy was sentenced today in common pleas court after pleading guilty to four counts of robbery for a series of robberies at ATM machines in the county.

Searcy was to be sentenced last week, but he filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea and a hearing was set before Judge James C. Evans. He changed his mind again, however, and decided to withdraw that motion, so his sentencing hearing took place.